What do you collect?

[nancielle]

I collect Betty Boop items. Became enamored of her when I was a little girl because she wasn't blonde haired & blue eyed (just like I wasn't...and still am not )

Snowmen. Started as a fluke. I received one as a gift many years ago and thought it needed a companion. They've just been invading ever since . They freak out my dog though(all decorations with faces do).

[Zen]

Antique telephones

Tin containers- candy, food, whatever as long as it has nice graphics.

Teapots

Postcards-the old ones that look hand-colored

[tulip]

bikes (of course). I have a Luna Eclipse, a Bike Friday Pocket Rocket Pro, and a Jamis Coda Comp. I lost the 1952 JC Higgins 3-speed and the 1980s Vitus road bike in the divorce. Oh well.

Teapots, me too! I love cast iron Japanese teapots. I only have two, but I'm always on the lookout for more. I also have three ceramic teapots--one from England and two from China. I drink tea, and I notice differences in taste depending on the teapot that I use.

Wire bicycles. I haven't made any myself yet, but I plan to. I have only three at the moment.

Photos of cool bikes that I have seen on my travels. I don't have them framed yet, but I have the wall picked out where they will hang. Utility bikes from Nicaragua and Brazil are my favorites, and a Mardi Gras adult trike from N.O.

[Irulan]

I collect post cards mailed from country of origin. Some of my more cools ones are Everest Base Camp, Bhutan and Mongolia.

[Aggie_Ama]

Here are some not so high quality photos of the cookie jars. None of them are expensive but I love each one.


The glass Liberty Bell my husband's stepmother found while cleaning out his Grandmother's house and thought I would like it. It is hideously ugly but cool in a "what the heck is this" way. His stepmom seems to think this brand of glass stuff is of value, I have not clue what it is but the weird cookie jar is cool in its own way, I guess. The other is a Mushroom I found at my Nanny's when we were moving her to assisted living. It always had Chips Ahoy in it when I was a kid, I had forgotten it existed and am proud it is in my possession now.


The Panda Bear was a gift from my mom because I love Pandas. The Crab was a gift from one of my closest friends because she knew I collected cookie jars and it was just kind of weird.


Pineapple was a gift from my Mom, she saw it at Garden Ridge and thought of me. We have a Palm Tree theme in our kitchen and the pineapple is tropical. That combined with the Christmas jar got me on this cookie jar collecting thing. The Cable Car was a birthday present I bought myself in San Francisco this year. It is the Hyde Street cable car.


And here is the one that started it all, the Christmas Jar. My husband's stepmother knew I liked to bake Christmas Cookies and bought me the jar for them. The Winnie the Pooh one was given to me by my mother because I like Winnie the Pooh.

[SlowButSteady]

License Plates. Trying for fifty states and then some.

Mammalian skulls (really).

Wild turkey hunting calls. I have one of the very best ever made. And a pretty good collection otherwise.

[Eden]

Teapots, me too! I love cast iron Japanese teapots. I only have two, but I'm always on the lookout for more. I also have three ceramic teapots--one from England and two from China. I drink tea, and I notice differences in taste depending on the teapot that I use.

I love my cast iron Japanese pot - I only have one - sooooo expensive, but very beautiful.

Most of mine are Chinese Yixing pots. They come in many shapes and sizes. I tend to like the more subtle or traditional designs than the fanciful ones that are made to look like something else - like a log or an animal.

The largest one is Chinese too, its an antique pot that I found at an estate sale.

[tulip]

Ooooh, nice teapots. I have an iron Japanese one like yours (squished) but it's black and red. My other one is square and all black. Once I get a kitchen back I'll unpack them and take a picture.

I love your little teapots.

[Biciclista]

I collect bikes, we used to collect violins. I try not to collect anything (except for bikes now) because it just starts to take up space. One might say I collect books too.

[bikerchic]

I collect cows mostly the black and white ones. The herd has taken over my kitchen and many boxes as I've packed up a lot of them. Everyone knows I love cows and I get lots of cows from friends and relatives.

I also collect Hard Rock Cafe shotglasses. I have nearly two dozen from all over the world, again friends and relatives buy them for me in their travels.

Lets see I collect post cards, stamps, bike related "stuff", teddy bears, bird houses, pink flamingos and diamonds! Well not so much diamonds, I can only wish, sigh.

[LoriO]

I collect children's horse books. It started after college when I was in a used book store and saw a couple of horse stories that I remembered reading as a child and I had to buy them. I know have bookshelves filled with horse books!

I also have a collection of Breyer horses. most of them are ones that I got when I was a child. I till occasionally add to my collection but not as much as I used to.

[GeoCam]

I collect cows mostly the black and white ones. The herd has taken over my kitchen and many boxes as I've packed up a lot of them. Everyone knows I love cows and I get lots of cows from friends and relatives.

Do you have one of the Terry "Moo" bikes? It would fit right in!!

http://www.arcfile.com/cow/graphics/moo.jpg